Well done Angus!

This morning's commute from Mittagong is slightly different: Heading off for Science Meets Parliament #SMP26 Looking forward to it.

I feel privileged & honoured on a day like to day when we celebrate two new PhD's from our group; Dr. Anika Moller and Dr. Keerthana Nakka as well as BSc Honours Medicinal Chemistry AND the University Medal for Emma Beukers. Very proud of Anika, Keerthana & Emma. The future belongs to you! #ozchem

@ashjogalekar.bsky.social Summarised beautifully on X the most profound lesson re Rosie and her personalised canine cancer vaccine, namely that Paul Conyngham's work here using AI to design the mRNA we made, demonstrates that Dyson's prophecy about "domesticating" Biotech is within reach! #ozchem

First group lunch of the year! We had a good start to the year; 4 PhD Theses recently submitted, several papers, 2 new Honours students joining, and our Honours student from last year returning to do a PhD with a University Medal in tow. So we celebrated with a delicious Thai lunch! #ozchem #RNA

Once again: The publication system needs to be taken behind the shed, shot and buried. Will CAS be the one that pull the trigger?

Alexis Verger 🧬🧫🧪@alexis-verger.cpesr.fr · 6mo ago

starting March 1, 2026, researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences are prohibited from using central government funds to pay Article Processing Charges for high-priced OA journals, specifically Nature Communications and Science Advances.

Today's RNA collaborative seminar, sponsored by the @rnasociety.bsky.social , will feature A/Prof. Kelly Clemens from the UNSW RNA Institute @unswrna.bsky.social #RNA

Iron Lung: Unsure when I eent with my teenage children to watch this movie. The producer/main actor is Markiplier, a popular YouTuber. This Gen Z horror movie is actually not bad. There is literally an ocean of blood in it! I feel like the producer has been heavily influenced by Das Boot & Solaris.

David MacMillan ( @princeton.edu Princeton) & 2021 Chemistry @nobelprize.org Laureate is here at @unswchemistry.bsky.social with another brilliant seminar #ozchem

Fantastic seminar here at @unswchemistry.bsky.social from Maartje Bastings @icepfl.bsky.social on programmable biomaterials. #ozchem

Raven-Flóki & Eric the Red have a lot to answer regarding naming Iceland and Greenland, respectively. However, I don't they could have counted on the Chief of Vineland (Leif Eriksson's name for America) to mix them repeatedly up even if not drunk.

Inspired by Mark Carney's historic speech, this from an Icelandic commentator: Expand the Nordic alliance to include Ireland, Scotland (goodbye Farage!) and Canada! An alliance of 83 Million ppl, 5% world GDP, like-minded countries. I say add Australia+New Zealand for extra power to this alliance.

Beyond proud of our @narjournal.bsky.social Nucleic Acids Research paper. It has everything to like: RNA, peptides, binding studies (2:1 equilib.!), biological relevance (Telomerases) AND great collaborators (@felixrizzuto.bsky.social Felix Rizzuto & John Mattick). academic.oup.com/nar/article/...

These people successfully used AI to run AND mark oral exams! This is quite interesting IMO. Probably a sign of what is coming. As educators our job will be to set up and oversee this sort of assessment tasks but AI will do the hard yakka. #ozchem www.behind-the-enemy-lines.com/2025/12/figh...

Fighting Fire with Fire: Scalable Oral Exams with an ElevenLabs Voice AI Agent

It all started with cold calling. In our new "AI/ML Product Management" class (co-taught with Konstantinos Rizakos ), the "pre-case" submi...

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We had a surprise Christmas visitor in our backyard - a very curious echidna! After roaming around for a bit, it went on its merry way to the neighbours and then up the next road back towards the bush.

Richard Robson always had very small research groups and limited, sporadic funding. This has never been better illustrated than by the acknowledgement slides to the Nobel lectures of Robson, Kitagawa, and Yaghi (only 1 of 4 slides shown below). We punched above our weight! #ozchem #NobelPrize

Goodbye Australia, Sydney (La Perouse), hello New Zealand (Te Korowai-o-Te-Tonga / South Head Peninsula), as I approach Auckland for the NZ RNA platform symposia. Looking forward to catch up again with our wonderful Kiwi #RNA #mRNA friends. #ozchem

We are very fortunate to have Dame Juliet Gerrard U. Aucklandhere at UNSW School of Chemistry to give a seminar about her journey through science, business and government. #ozchem

This is a fantastic day for Australian chemistry. First Australian chemistry Nobel prize since John Cornforth in 1975, but Richard Robson's work is at least as impactful. #ozchem

Jon Beves@jonbeves.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Fantastic to see one of my chemical heroes, Richard Robson, winning the Nobel Prize for coordination frameworks (MOFs), together with Kitagawa and Yaghi. #ozchem

Beyond proud to be the 2025 recipient of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute (RACI) Leighton Memorial Medal, in recognition of eminent service to chemistry in Australia. Big thanks to all my former and current students, staff amd collaborators for making this happen. #RACI #ozchem #chemistry

Hahahaha! I still think of my favourite student survey feedback: "Great accent, sounds like a 1930's Chicago ganster" Maybe Sydney Uni should also look into the benefits of foreign accents;-) See www.news.com.au/lifestyle/pa...

A nice round number on Google Scholar, so I couldn't resist snapping a screenshot.

I got a light teaching load so it impacts me less than others but boy, isn't demoralising to have only 3 of 64 students attending lectures. This is not sustainable as eventually people lose the will to teach this way. Can we not just admit the lecture is dead & buried and make some big changes.

Saying goodbye to Carlos, our superstar visiting #supramolecular PhD student from U. Chile, Santiago who has been with us here at UNSW School of Chemistry, for the past 10 months doing some amazing work in #calixarene host-guest chemistry. We will miss you Carlos! #ozchem

Off to Les Diablerets in the Swiss Alps for the biannual Gordon Conference on Self-assembly and Supramolecular Chemistry! Looking forward to catching up with friends and making new + soaking in some great science in the alpine environment. And yes it includes RNA condensates etc ;-)

My 15y tells me there a lot of ads from Labor, LNP and yes, Clive's Trumpets on Insta. Big diff between the Labor & LNP content is that people just make fun of the latter for how out of touch they are while Labor, being also mostly lame, at least gets sometimes right with the cynical Insta crowd

My 15y son listens to Radiohead and my 13y daughter to Nirvana and got herself also a Green Day t-shirt (she had 2 Nirvana ones already). Several years of listening to my playlist in the car seem to have paid off;-) #GenX

Marc Greenberg from John Hopkins giving a fantastic lecture here at @unswchemistry.bsky.social UNSW RNA Institute on oxidative damage in DNA-histone protein interactions. #ozchem #RNA #DNA

Fantastic analysis of what is wrong with Australian politics: We wasted a $400b windfall, and now we’ll all have to pay www.afr.com/policy/econo...

We wasted a $400b windfall, and now we’ll all have to pay

An audit of federal finances finds Australia has never seen rivers of gold like this, but the hangover will be brutal.

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Our faculty had a great discussion about these BIG proposed changes. My thoughts: 1) Fellowships are gone. 2) LIEF gone, the 30 "collaborate" grants may include some for large equipment. 4) Initiate = 2 years = too short. 5) No distinct fundamental research is risky. 6) Need international reviewers!

ARC Tracker@arc-tracker.bsky.social · 2y ago

The ARC Board has proposed a major shake-up of the National Competitive Grants Program ▶️ www.arc.gov.au/engage-us/co... I've only skimmed so far, but they propose reducing 13 grant schemes to 6, with intent & scope in the table👇 Submissions are being accepted in response until 13 April. Get to it!